Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:
1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or maybe they want to show off their best pictures or video to the whole world in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr makes all these things possible and more!
To do this, we want to get photos and video into and out of the system in as many ways as we can: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users' home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their content. And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways we haven't thought of yet. What else are we going to use those smart refrigerators for?
2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.
Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of photos you take or videos you shoot with that itchy trigger finger. Albums, the principal way people go about organizing things today, are great -- until you get to 20 or 30 or 50 of them. They worked in the days of getting rolls of film developed, but the "album" metaphor is in desperate need of a Florida condo and full retirement.
Part of the solution is to make the process of organizing photos or videos collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your stuff - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. People like to ooh and ahh, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing photos and videos. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet? And as all this info accretes as metadata, you can find things so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable.
This site is sort of so-so. Its actual operation is great. It works really well. Unfortunately, I don't see the practical applications. Maybe it's just because I'm not one of those people who obsessively follows their social networks, and I don't have much in the way of contacts to babble about my pictures with. But the only use I can see for this, really, is that it would be a good place to back your photos up to. And if you are the kind of person who posts every picture to a social network, this might be good for you to share your photos with your friends. It does have more storage space than you might think. 300 MB is a lot more pictures than it sounds like. Most jpgs are measured in kilobytes. I've seen them in sizes ranging from 6 or 7 kilobytes to 100 kB or so. And it takes 1000 of those to make one megabyte. That's a lot of pictures.
Rating:
If it matters to anyone, I posted a link to my gallery of uploads. I think you'll notice a recurring theme. My photos
Here's a good tutorial.
You probably want to view it on youtube and make it full screen since there aren't any words included in the audio. It's all visual.
Flickr- store your photos and videos online
What it is:Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:
1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.
This site is sort of so-so. Its actual operation is great. It works really well. Unfortunately, I don't see the practical applications. Maybe it's just because I'm not one of those people who obsessively follows their social networks, and I don't have much in the way of contacts to babble about my pictures with. But the only use I can see for this, really, is that it would be a good place to back your photos up to. And if you are the kind of person who posts every picture to a social network, this might be good for you to share your photos with your friends. It does have more storage space than you might think. 300 MB is a lot more pictures than it sounds like. Most jpgs are measured in kilobytes. I've seen them in sizes ranging from 6 or 7 kilobytes to 100 kB or so. And it takes 1000 of those to make one megabyte. That's a lot of pictures.
Rating:
If it matters to anyone, I posted a link to my gallery of uploads. I think you'll notice a recurring theme.
My photos
Here's a good tutorial.
You probably want to view it on youtube and make it full screen since there aren't any words included in the audio. It's all visual.